Help! Is there a way to uninstall and reinstall Mail?

Here's my issue...
I'm still on an iMac ver. 10.2.8. Prehistoric, I know.
Almost daily, my Mail will suddenly start retrieving over a thousand or so "New" messages. These emails are not new, but just a re-retreiving of my incoming mail from the last few days or weeks. It doesn't matter if I've deleted mail, responded or otherwise. It just suddenly retrieves the last thousand or so emails that I've already been sent.
CLUE- Every time this happens, I also get a single strange email. There is no content to read/see, no subject in the header, and no email address that it's coming from! I would try blocking this specific spammer (if that's what the problem is) but there's no visible email address to block...
This happens randomly, and now sometimes twice a day. It takes me almost an hour each time to filter out the doubled, tripled, and quadrupled emails!
Here's what's awful... I was away for a couple days, and I got hit with this enough times that when I open mail, I have over 12,000 new emails, but before I can do anything, mail crashes! I can't imagine how the heck I would go about fixing this!
Do I need to uninstall and reinstall? How would I go about doing that?
I'm not very tech savvy!
PLEASE HELP! Thanks so much in advance for any help you can give!

Hi Ernie,
Thanks again for taking the time to help me out...
I'm not even exactly sure what the "server" is, but yes, I can actually check my email via the Internet through webmail. And the messages never repeatedly retrieve there, but I'd prefer to use Mail if I can fix this. as it's much easier to use.
When I open up Mail, before it crashes, there are 4117 that it's trying to retrieve, but there are 10878 existing messages, but I'm not able to delete very many before it crashes.
Okay. I got the info from the INBOX.mbox. The overall size is 909.2 MB.
There are a total of 24 items in the package contents, and this is what they are all labeled:
info.plist
mbox
mbox.SKindex-Matthew-buschs-com...local.445
mbox.SKindex-Matthew-buschs-com...local.491
mbox.SKindex-Matthew-buschs-com...local.498
mbox.SKindex-Matthew-buschs-com...local.500
mbox.SKindex-Matthew-buschs-com...local.502
mbox.SKindex-Matthew-buschs-com...local.504
mbox.SKindex-Matthew-buschs-com...local.506
mbox.SKindex-Matthew-buschs-com...local.508
mbox.SKindex-Matthew-buschs-com...local.510
mbox.SKindex-Matthew-buschs-com...local.512
mbox.SKindex-Matthew-buschs-com...local.514
mbox.SKindex-Matthew-buschs-com...local.516
mbox.SKindex-Matthew-buschs-com...local.518
mbox.SKindex-Matthew-buschs-com...local.532
mbox.SKindex-Matthew-buschs-com...local.534
mbox.SKindex-Matthew-buschs-com...local.537
mbox.SKindex-Matthew-buschs-com...local.705
mbox.SKindex-Matthew-buschs-com...local.707
mbox.SKindex-Matthew-buschs-com...local.709
mbox.SKindex-Matthew-buschs-com...local.711
mbox.SKindex.isValid
tableofcontents
Are there some of those I can delete? If at all possible, I'd like to keep some of my existing messages, but at this point, I'll nix anything just to fix the problem!
Thanks again for all of your guidance, Ernie!
Matt!

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